The Android team has “jubilantly” announced the release of their 2.3 and it’s quite a doozy, but inside and out. One of the obvious things that you’ll see right off the bat is the significant UI update, which is using the Holo UI pattern. With the use of the sweet Action Bar and navigation update using the menu drawer you may feel as if you’re using an entirely different application. Well, you may not have that big of a lurch in your experience but it’s definitely worth a review. Big ups to Isaac Keyet and the contributors that helped round out […]
Why We Created Sur.ly and Why it Matters
Before I start explaining the reasons why we developed Sur.ly, let me briefly tell you how this spam prevention tool works. It’s a new free WP plugin that can make your website or forum non-sensitive to spam attacks by replacing all unwarranted outbound links with safe links to interstitial pages on Sur.ly (hereafter I will clarify why this method to stop spam does matter).
Reminder: URLs are Important UI Elements
URLs – they are so vitally important and are so much a part of our lives that sometimes we do not even actively think about it anymore. I was reminded how important in a recent post entitled “URL’s Are For People, Not Computers“. With a title like that I’m fairly confident that you know what the article is about, but I thought I’d share my thoughts on that article here nonetheless. Andreas’ main point in the article is that: URLs are user facing and should be considered important UI elements He even backs this statement up with science! (PDF) I’ve […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 4.17.2013
Happy #humpday everyone! I Hope the rest of your week is as awesome as the first part of your week. Hopefully some new plugins will help with the level of awesomeness. Check out the new plugins after the jump!
Web Development Environments for WordPress?
Many of us do much more development than just WordPress – from iOS to Rails to .NET to ______[fill in the blank]______ you’re building apps everywhere. As a natural consequence, many of us are using newer and newer tools that are helping us create, manage, and deploy development environments for our work – anything to speed up production and eventual launch. Anything that’ll save time, especially with things like configuration and working in a shared environment. With things like Nitrous.io (which was Action.io) you can, with a cloud solution where you get a lightweight and centralized way to manage your […]
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